Graphic Redemption

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In Terry Tempest Williams' Stories from the Field, Williams was able to make a connection between the ecosystem and human emotion by using extremely vivid describing words. For example, she is able to relate a broken heart to a hawk that had been shot and landed in a barbed wire fence in the short essay called Winter Solstice at the Moab Slough. It reads, ".. chained or grazed to a stubble, or a hawk is shot and hung by its feet on a barbed wire fence, my heart cannot be broken because I never risk giving it away. "

The most disturbing short story she wrote about was Redemption. Shee described "another crusifiction in the West, ..." She graphically explains a hide that had been hung on a barbed wire fence with a wrangler's prayer. The prayer read, "Cows are scared. Sheep, too." The words that she uses to describe this scene are few, but the graphic and gruesome enough that words he writes is able to paint a picture in your mind of this mangled hide, blood soaked, with flies swarming the carcass, not to mention the smell that was probably emanating from it as well makes your stomach churn. This essay, only consisting of a few sentences, is able to take you from a good mood, then rips you down so fast and makes you sick to your stomach.

Gross.